Day: June 7, 2026

The US and Iran Exchange Fire Jeopardizing a Tenuous Ceasefire As Iran Insists on Trump Releases Over $24 Billion of Its Frozen Assets Before Finalizing a Deal

We begin with Iran and the US exchanging fire in the Persian Gulf jeopardizing a tenuous ceasefire as the spokesman for Iran’s Supreme Leader makes clear that the US has to unfreeze $24 billion of Iranian money as a first step towards finalizing the MOU to end the war. Joining us is David Hearst, the Editor of Middle East Eye who formerly was the chief foreign leader writer of The Guardian, the Guardian’s former Associate Foreign Editor, European Editor, Moscow Bureau Chief, European Correspondent, and Ireland Correspondent. He has an article at Middle East Eye, “Iran has won the war. Trump and Netanyahu now face a reckoning.”

Republican Senators Give Stephen Miller $70 Billion On Top Of $100 Billion Unspent to Pursue Cruelty a Majority of Taxpayers Oppose

Then we look into the extra $70 billion the Republican senate just gave to ICE and CBP on top of the $100 billion they have not spent to perpetuate and institutionalize Stephen Miller’s cruelty as they round up immigrants then torture them in private prisons run by corrupt cronies to make life so miserable for inmates that they relent and self-deport, all in the name of taxpayers who oppose Trump’s private army and the immunity they have to shoot down American citizens in the streets. Joining us is Robert Kuttner, the co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect and the Ida and Meyer Kirstein Chair at Brandeis University. He was formerly an assistant to the legendary I.F. Stone, a chief investigator for the Senate Banking Committee, and for 20 years wrote a column at Business Week.  His books include Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy and he has a new memoir, Notes for Next Time: Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America and an article at The American Prospect we discuss, “The Republican Senate Chickens Out.”

The DoJ Under Todd Blanche is the Department of Trump Family Crime and Pedophile Protection

Then finally we investigate how Todd Blanche’s Department of Justice is pursuing crime and weaponizing punishment as it enables Trump and his family’s criminality while protecting pedophiles. Joining us is Steven Harper, a professor at Northwestern University and a regular contributor to The American Lawyer. He is the author of several books, including The Lawyer Bubble — A Profession in Crisis and Crossing Hoffa — A Teamster’s Story. He blogs at The Belly of the Beast and has an article at Common Dreams, “Abandoning the ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ Won’t Solve Todd Blanche’s Big Problem.”